reassign 680763 live-build retitle 680763 permanently disable persistent-net generator tag 680763 pending thanks
as you correctly saw, udev tries to be clever and keep persistent device names for amongst others, network devices such as eth*. this is accomplished through /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. since persistent network devices are not usefull for live system whos purpose is to be used on many different hardware, we do remove this udev rule in live-build. udev then however re-adds this rule if it's missing. in the case of using debian-live with persistency, this means, that a debian-live system will then have a persistent network device name, which is unwanted. given that the primary usage of a live system is to be used on many different hardware, regardless if persistency is used or not, we should make sure to optimize for the majority/most-used case and disable the udev rule entirely so that udev does not re-add it. those users that do want persistent network devices when using persistency are clearly a edge-case and can 'workaround' it by enabling it directly in their builds (by omitting the persistent-net hack). for everyone else not using persistency, the change in the behaviour doesn't matter anyway, they will get no persistent network devices in the first place anyway. disabling the rule for good can be done in live-build at build-time by truncating the 70-persistent-net.rules instead of removing it. i have commited this to both the live-build 2.x branch (relevant for the squeeze point releases) and the 3.x branch (relevant for the wheezy releases). thanks for bringing this to our attention. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
